22 Dreams

(To be submitted to the Songsmith. I acknowledge the influence of the following sources: Jon Stebbins The Real Beach Boy ; Adam Webb Dumb Angel : the life and music of Dennis Wilson ; Brian Wilson Wouldn't it be nice : an autobiography ; Endless Summer [film]) ‘The Year that he was cool’ . A song penned by ex-Cold Chisel keyboardist / songwriter Don Walker, appearing on his 1991 Catfish album Ruby . The song is a character expose of a young guy who back in the 60’s ruled his town as top surfer and ladies man (“…he could surf the curl on a barmaid’s lip, he could surf a yard of beer…”). Twenty years later as his mates have gone on to law degrees and the girls that were once his own have travelled overseas, he stands outside the bowling club “barfing like a mule” & “drinking in a rage”, and no-one wants to know about the ‘year that he was cool’. It transpires that Walker’s song is an unintentional biographical pastiche of the life of Beach Boy Dennis Wilson. Dennis, the ...

i bought a couple of albums on the weekend and they were serious purchases too one is Paul Weller's new album 22 dreams and the other.. Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue a remastered remixed repackaged rebookleted re theworks double CD pack for the new millennia with bonus tracks added for extra tantalisemint and a cd-rom pdf-file hidden somewhere in the swirly silver grooves the bonus cd included in the pacific ocean blue toolkit is of the unfinished Bambu album ...unfinished of course because Dennis was exhorting himself on gigantean amounts of coke & booze may he rest in peace his was a gifted soul a beach boy surfer and kick-arse rock'n'roll drummer and arguably as gifted a composer as big brother bri interestingly enough as i listen to these albums slowly carving rivers through my musical grey matter they're actually quite alike in performance and style Weller's album, 2008 Dennis Wilson's, 1977 it's very organic music full of soul and flavour ...